Shirt.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

7 W. HESS, JR.

SHIRT.

APPLIGATION FILED 00T.30, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WENDELL HESS, JR, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL SHIRT COLLAR (10., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed October 30,1905. Serial No. 284,963.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WENDELL HESS, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification The invention relates to such improvements; and'it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawing, and the reference characters marked thereon, which forms a part of this specification. v

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the figure therein.

The single figure of the drawing represents a plan view of the bosom side of a dress-shirt embodying my invention as the same appears when folded up and exposedfor sale.

Much difiiculty has been experienced by wearers of dress-shirts in retaining the bosom of the shirt within the vest or waistcoat due to the tendency of the bosom in accommodating itself to the movements of the wearer in' use to assume a longitudinally-curved form that is, with its longitudinal lines outwardly curved and its transverse lines comparatively straightcausing the bosom to bulge outwardly and force itself out through the front opening of the vest.

Various expedients have been resorted to to secure the retention of the bosom within the vest, such as straps and suspender connections; but such devices are more or less cumbersome, being in the nature of attachments.

I have ascertained that a shirt-bosom can be so made as to contain within itself the means for controlling its curvature in use and that by employing such curvature-controlling. means to impart to the bosom in use a transverse curvature the longitudinal curvature will be prevented and the outward bulging of the bosom due to longitudinal curvature will be impossible.

In carrying out my invention I form the bosom with side projections at about the waist-line, making the bosom materially Wider thereat than at its upper and lower ends, such widened waist portion being in use curved around the waist of the wearer by the confining influence of the outer clothing, causing the whole bosom to assume a transversely-curved or partly-cylindrical form, the horizontal lines of the bosom being outwardly curved and its vertical lines approximately straight. The bosom being composed of stifliy-starched fabric is so strengthened by being thus transversely curved to cylindrical form that it is able to successfully resist the tendency to bend or curve longitudinally and bulge outwardly.

Referring to the drawing, wherein I have shown a preferred form of bosom embodying my invention, 1 is the shirt-body, and 2 the bosom, having at about the waist-line the curvature-controlling side projections 3 3, extending in curved form outwardly beyond the side lines of a bosom of ordinary form, so that the bosom has its greatest width below its horizontal center line, whereby the widest part of the bosom is located below the horizontal plane of the arm-scyes of the shirt in position to bend around the body of the wearer beneath his arms, and thereby control the curvature of the bosom. The bosom gradually increases in width from its horizontal center line toward its lower end, and in its preferred form its lower end is of semicircular shape and its upper portion gradually diminishes in width from the widest point to the neckband.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A dress-shirt bosom having its greatest width below its horizontal center line substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A dress-shirt bosom gradually increasing in width from. its horizontal center line to- Ward its lower end as set forth.

3. A dressshirt bosom having its greatest width below its horizontal center line, its lower end of semicircular shape, and the upper portion gradually diminishing in width from the widest point to the neckband as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of October, 1905.

WENDELL HESS, JR.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. MOSHER, E. M. OREILLY. 

